Isolation by distance promotes gut microbial strain divergence in wild mouse populations.

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Bacterial species within the mammalian gut microbiota exhibit considerable strain diversity associated with both geography and host genetic ancestry. However, because geography and ancestry are typically confounded, disentangling their contributions to the divergence of gut bacterial strains has remained challenging. Here we show that isolation by distance (IBD) promotes gut bacterial strain divergence within...

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